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<span class=large>THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI</span>
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CHAPTER 24
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Israel shall be gathered and shall enjoy millennial rest—Lucifer cast out of heaven for rebellion—Israel shall triumph over Babylon (the world)—Compare <a href="isa/14">Isaiah 14</a>.  Between 559 and 545 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 14: 1 (1-32)."><span class='smallcaps'>For</span></a> the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zech. 1: 17; Zech. 2: 12.">choose</a> Israel, and set them in their own land; and the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/24/1c" mark="c" type="C" title="Isa. 60: 3 (3-5, 10); TG Stranger.">strangers</a> shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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And the people shall take them and bring them to their place; yea, from far unto the ends of the earth; and they shall return to their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Promised Lands.">lands</a> of promise.  And the house of Israel shall <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Amos 9: 12.">possess</a> them, and the land of the Lord shall be for <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/24/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 60: 14 (10-12, 14).">servants</a> and handmaids; and they shall take them captives unto whom they were captives; and they shall <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/24/2d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Kingdom of God, on Earth.">rule</a> over their oppressors.
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And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 1: 13; D&C 84: 24.">rest</a>, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that thou shalt take up this proverb <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hab. 2: 6 (6-8).">against</a> the king of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Babylon.">Babylon</a>, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!
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The Lord hath broken the staff of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Cleansing of; TG Wickedness.">wicked</a>, the scepters of the rulers.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/6a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Babylon.">He</a> who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
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The whole earth is at <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Earth, Renewal of.">rest</a>, and is quiet; they break forth into <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 55: 12 (12-13).">singing</a>.
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Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and also the cedars of Lebanon, saying: Since thou art laid down no feller is come up against us.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/9a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ezek. 32: 21; TG Hell.">Hell</a> from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Spirits in Prison.">dead</a> for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
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All they shall speak and say unto thee: Art thou also become weak as we?  Art thou become like unto us?
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Thy pomp is brought down to the grave; the noise of thy viols is not heard; the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/12a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE the fallen king of Babylon is typified by the fallen “son of the morning,” Lucifer in v. 12-15; D&C 76: 26.">How</a> art thou fallen from heaven, O <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Devil.">Lucifer</a>, son of the morning!  Art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!
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For thou hast said in thy heart: <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Moses 4: 1 (1-4).">I</a> will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north;
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Thes. 2: 4.">I</a> will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 28: 1; Ps. 88: 4; 1 Ne. 14: 3.">pit</a>.
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They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and shall consider thee, and shall say: Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?
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And made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners?
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All the kings of the nations, yea, all of them, lie in glory, every one of them in his own house.
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But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and the remnant of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people; the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 21: 10 (10-11); Ps. 37: 28; Ps. 109: 13.">seed</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Wickedness.">evil</a>-doers shall never be renowned.
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Prepare slaughter for his children for the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 5.">iniquities</a> of their fathers, that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
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For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 10: 7; Jer. 51: 62.">name</a>, and remnant, and son, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 18: 19.">nephew</a>, saith the Lord.
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I will also make it a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 34: 11 (11-15).">possession</a> for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
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The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand—
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That I will bring the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; then shall his <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 10: 27.">yoke</a> depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.
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For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul? And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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In the year that king <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/28a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 16: 20.">Ahaz</a> died was this burden.
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Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 26: 6.">smote</a> thee is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 8 (1, 8).">fruit</a> shall be a <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/24/29c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Types of, in Anticipation.">fiery</a> flying serpent.
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And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved; for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
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What shall then answer the messengers of the nations?  That the Lord hath founded <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/24/32a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Zion.">Zion</a>, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/24/32b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zeph. 3: 12.">poor</a> of his people shall trust in it.
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